A pilot project with a master grant agreement with
the Imperial County Department of Public Health,
Environmental Health Services was approved for $194,800.
The pilot project identified fifteen farm and ranch
properties with over 8,000 cubic yards of illegally
disposed waste including tires. Grant funds provided to
Imperial County in this manner will enable the County to
approach the 15 eligible property owners previously
given cleanup notices with a committed source of cleanup
funds, allowing motivated property owners to quickly
apply, get approval, and remediate the sites with a more
efficient utilization of limited County resources.
Additionally, the Board approved 7 grants totaling
$260,465 for the solid waste cleanup of nine farm and
ranch sites in the counties of Mendocino, Sacramento,
Sutter, Shasta (two applications), Yolo, and Yuba.

The Board awarded 3 grants. Two illegal disposal
site cleanup grants were awarded:

City of LA = $500,000

Suisun Resource Conservation District = $21,600

And one solid waste disposal site cleanup partial
grant to the County of Sacramento for $410,000.

6

Scoring Criteria and Evaluation Process for the Farm
and Ranch Solid Waste Cleanup and Abatement Grant
Program

Approved (Consent)

The following changes to the scoring criteria and
evaluation process were approved:

Include minor revisions to the General Criteria.

Reduce the number of grant cycles in each fiscal
year from four to three.

Revise the Affidavit to require property owners
to state, under penalty of perjury, if they were
aware of the waste when the property was purchased
and if so, that they did not pay a reduced price for
the property due to the presence of the waste.

7

Solid Waste Disposal and Codisposal Site Cleanup
Program: Two new Board-managed Projects

The Board approved the new SWFP for the combined
Sunshine Canyon Landfill. CIWMB is acting as the solid
waste enforcement agency (EA) because there is currently
no local enforcement agency (LEA) that can fully process
a permit application for the facility which spans two
separate jurisdictions. The new permit combines the
existing Sunshine Canyon County Extension Landfill
(Facility No. 19-AA-0853) with the Sunshine Canyon City
Landfill Unit 2 (Facility No. 19-AR-0002). The County
and City have designated a new joint Sunshine Canyon LEA
to provide oversight to the combined facility. Once the
Enforcement Program Plan (EPP) is approved and the new
joint EA is certified, the oversight authority will be
transferred from the CIWMB to the new Sunshine Canyon
LEA.

The Strategic Policy Committee directed staff to
move forward with the main solutions to barriers
identified by stakeholders through many workshops and
meetings which will be further developed and brought
back to the Board. The solutions include:

Coordination of environmental and regulatory
goals by high levels, possibly CalEPA, and
regulatory/permitting processes(possibly have joint
Board meetings with Air & Water)

More accessible research with the Board serving
as the repository and clearinghouse

The Board approved the following fee adjustments,
effective January 1, 2009, to ensure that there are
sufficient revenues to fund the electronic waste
recycling program through January 1, 2011, which is the
latest date at which any future fee adjustments would
become effective:

Eight dollars ($8) for each covered electronic
device with a screen size of less than 15 inches
measured diagonally.

Sixteen dollars ($16) for each covered
electronic device with a screen size greater than or
equal to 15 inches but less than 35 inches measured
diagonally.

Twenty five dollars ($25) for each covered
electronic device with a screen size greater than or
equal to 35 inches measured diagonally.

Audit a minimum of 4% of loans, 8% of grants, 5%
of contracts, 16% of oil fee payers, and 9% of
covered electronic waste recovery and recycling
claims in 2008-09, and increase thereafter annually
to an overall 17% audit rate

Require a Grant Self-Assessment Checklist of all
grant programs to be conducted by the grantee at the
conclusion of each grant; to be in place beginning
fiscal year 2008/09

14

Contract Allocations of $300,000 from The Integrated
Waste Management Account for Fiscal Year 2008/09
D-1 Three Part Test
D-2 Longterm Postclosure Maintenance Costs

Approved (Committee Consensus)

The Board approved two contract allocation
proposals: $150,000 to study the validity of the Three
Part Test and $150,000 to study technologies and
management practices for minimizing longterm postclosure
maintenance costs.

This was a discussion item only. Board staff
presented a menu of policy options for discussion and
Board direction. Workshops are continuing on July 17th.
Staff will begin to develop regulatory language for some
items and return to the Board for additional direction
at the July Board meeting on others. Proposed regulatory
language is scheduled to be presented to the Board in
August for direction to begin the formal rulemaking
process.

Upcoming Events

This all LEA e-mail summarizing Board actions at this
month’s Board Meeting was sent on behalf of the LEA Outreach
Training Support Branch of the California Integrated Waste
Management Board (CIWMB), and Ted Rauh, Director, Waste
Compliance and Mitigation Program.

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